Guild Wars 2

I main a mesmer in fractals as well, completely geared to take full advantage of reflects and everything, and when I first read this instability I balked at the thought. However, mesmers still have options to be useful the scales with this instability, you just need to use the right build.

The instability said that we could not reflect projectiles, but said nothing about stopping them. When properly traited and set up, three wardens can destroy all projectiles thrown at the party, providing protection and damage at the same time.

So run Domination, Dueling, Illusions, (possibly switch something out for Chronomancer) and trait appropriately.

Is it ideal? Not really. Does that mean we should abandon our mesmers for this one stability? Not at all.

For both PVE and WvW I’ve been running Carrion gear and Dire/Rabid trinkets and a 30/30/0/0/10 build with a great amount of success. The precision from the traits and trinkets is more than enough for the amount of grenades I toss out to the world, and the power from Carrion gear is nice when combined with the extra damage per condition trait.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Her default size is already smaller than a miniature. A miniature version of her would look like an ant.

If a miniature of Taimi would be too small, perhaps they could make a set of pauldrons with Taimi sitting on one shoulder. That way she can always be with us on our adventures!

NevirSayDie.6235:

I also regularly defend the engineer as a fun, viable profession. That doesn’t mean to not be realistic, though. There are a lot of useless traits, not just timed mines. Acidic elixirs, acidic coating, scope, packaged stimulants…just off the top of my head, engineers have a lot of useless traits.

I’ve used Acidic Coating in a Pistol condition damage build for PVE and found it works very well. It’s not hard to get mobs to group together so you can stack conditions on all of them at once.